Women's Premier League 2023: Kapp, Capsey combine in Delhi Capitals win

Marizanne Kapp and Alice Capsey saw Delhi Capitals to a 5 wicket win over UP Warriorz today in the Women's Premier League.

Match Summary

Women's Premier League, Match 20

UP Warriorz 138/6 (20 ov)

Delhi Capitals Women 142/5 (17.5 ov)

Result - Delhi Capitals Women won by 5 wickets

SCORECARD

After being put in to bat Alyssa Healy stepped up UP Warriorz, as she smashed 4 Fours on her way to 36.

Things swung in Delhi Capitals favour as Alice Capsey (3/26) took control with the ball.

Tahlia McGrath (58*) added an important half century, with 8 fours and 2 sixes along the way.

UP Warriorz headed in at 138, most likely happy with the score following some quality bowling from Delhi Capitals.

In response, Delhi Capitals wasted no time as opener Meg Lanning raced off to 39.

Marizanne Kapp (34*) and Alice Capsey (34) then made the result for certain, as Delhi Capitals won by 5 wickets.

Match Stats

UP Warriorz Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Shweta Sehrawat - 4.1 ov), 2-63 (Alyssa Healy - 9.6 ov), 3-71 (Simran Shaikh - 11.6 ov), 4-91 (Kiran Prabhu Navgire - 14.5 ov), 5-104 (Deepti Sharma - 17.1 ov), 6-105 (Sophie Ecclestone - 17.4 ov)

Delhi Capitals Fall of wickets: 1-56 (Shafali Verma - 4.5 ov), 2-67 (Jemimah Rodrigues - 6.1 ov), 3-70 (Meg Lanning - 6.5 ov), 4-130 (Alice Capsey - 16.2 ov), 5-136 (Jess Jonassen - 17.3 ov)

Playing XI

UP Warriorz Women: Alyssa Healy (wicket-keeper & captain), Kiran Navgire, Tahlia McGrath, Deepti Sharma, Soppadhandi Yashasri, Shweta Sehrawat, Simran Shaikh, Parshavi Chopra, Sophie Ecclestone, Anjali Sarvani, Shabnim Ismail

Delhi Capitals Women: Meg Lanning (captain), Shafali Verma, Alice Capsey, Jemimah Rodrigues, Marizanne Kapp, Jess Jonassen, Taniya Bhatia (wicket-keeper), Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav, Shikha Pandeu, Poonam Yadav

Match Details

Toss: Delhi Capitals Women, elected to field

Venue: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

Start time: 1400 hrs GMT

Match officials: Gayathri Venugopalan, Nitin Pandit (On-field Umpires); Vrinda Rathi (TV Umpire); Pashchim Pathak (Reserve Umpire); Varsha Nagre (Match-referee)

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